Girl · Hebrew, through English pet forms
Polly
Say it: POL-ee
Meaning
A rhyming pet form of Mary, through Molly.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A very common pet name given as a name in its own right in 18th-century England and America.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1880s
In the United States
- 29,329 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1881, about 1 in 1,900 girls
- 54 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
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Where this comes from
- Colonial records of the Americas
- Parish baptism registers
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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